They kept praying through five more heart attacks.
"It's everything," said Dwight Wright. "It's the reason my wife's still here, I believe."

Yeah, don't thank the doctors and nurses and researchers whose work have yielded tremendous medical advances. Just ignore all those people and say praying is the reason she is still alive. Then when she dies he'll say God wanted her by his side. You can't reason with these people.

They won't die out. The are sexually repressed so when they get married they screw all the time. And they are taught that contraception is bad (many of them, at least). We can't just sit back, because the internet is the only place where ideas have an (almost) equal footing to fight for mindshare.

Nope, if she dies it will just be called part of "god's plan"TM and if she does get better it'll be part of "god's plan"TM, and either way ignoring all that modern medicine has done for her. Keeping her alive when, even a few decades ago, she would probably have already died.

What pisses me off about this "religion vs. medical science" crap is that people want doctors to go half-way. They frame it as some sort of "respect" issue. Doctors should "respect" the beliefs of their clients. I'm all for that. To a point. If you want a little picture in the operating room to make you feel better, fine. Great. Stick it in a nice sterile bag and slap that puppy up there. No fuss. No muss.

When you want the doctors to cut corners or skip procedures because they go against your "beliefs"... we've got a problem. Then it isn't about respect. It's about ignorance vs. knowledge. It's about people who have no fucking clue what they're talking about getting in the way of people who know their shit... getting their shit done.

Doctors should be free to say "no," to doing a shitty job based on outmoded superstition. There's the door. Pray all you like. Out there. When you're ready to Try Science, the door is always open. We have some pretty nice jell-o too, for when you're feeling up to it.

Pretty selfish of them to pray to their god to fix something that is easily fixed via human means. The advances of human medicine not good enough for them that they would rather the woman go through the pain of waiting just for the hope that it might be fixed?

If god ordains all, he has CAUSED your poor bastard familty member to recieve the heart attack. In what fucked up universe will praying for his health un-cause it? You dont get that much pull with the guy upstairs.